What happens when a glamorous express, with high government officials, wealthy merchants, concubines and a gang of brigands on board, speeds towards the small town of Hanshui, where escaping bank robbers, corrupt officials, and gamblers await? Well, let’s just say the Titanic had a smoother maiden voyage.
In 1937 Shanghai, a soon-to-depart soldier meets a young woman under a bridge during a Japanese air raid. They vow to meet after the war ends, but they don’t know each other’s name or face. Ten years later, the young woman, a nightclub singer, takes in a naive girl fresh from the country. The country girl falls in love with the would-be song-writer upstairs who, unbeknownst to the singer, is none other than the soldier … Read more
A sociopathic beauty urges three nerdy pranksters to embark on a deranged rampage. Three slacker pals make a firebomb and plant it in a movie theater. Pearl, a cruel little girl, has seen the situation and has begun to control the bombers. The four crooks are planning increasingly risky actions.
A Cantonese opera company is attacked by an army of ghosts, thanks to a feud between the dead grandfathers of one of the company’s actresses and a young man.